The paper addresses the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) of the
turbulent wake of the Ahmed car model. To this end we use a
Fourier-Chebyshev multi-domain solver and the LES capability is
implemented through the use of the Spectral Vanishing Viscosity
(SVV) method, completed with a near-wall correction. A
"pseudo-penalization" technique is used to model the bluff body.
Comparisons of the present SVV-LES results with the experiments and
also with a more classical Finite Volume LES are provided.